Elon Brings Attention To Dirty Tricks The Gov’t Played During Lockdown

Biden and Trudeau weren’t the only politicians gaming the system to push their Covid narrative on a skeptical public and punish dissenters.

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The UK is facing criticism for getting a third-party hired gun tech corp to spy on their citizens.

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Aren’t we lucky our federal government has shown themselves honorable, even-handed and apolitical? Aren’t you relieved that such a thing could never happen in America?

Right.

Anyway…

The British Government woke up with a black eye after reports that they used the occasion of COVID to push draconian measures they would never have dared pass during ordinary circumstances.

Elon Musk has joined the outcry over allegations that a British government unit worked with social media firms to stifle criticism of Covid lockdown policies.
A report claims that the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU), which leads the Government’s response to ‘disinformation threats’ online, was used during the pandemic to curb critics of lockdown.
Documents revealed under Freedom of Information and data protection requests showed that the activities of prominent critics of Covid policies were secretly monitored, according to the report in the Daily Telegraph. — DailyMail

So, what do we know about these reports that Elon called ‘terrible’?

Asecretive government unit worked with social media companies in an attempt to curtail discussion of controversial lockdown policies during the pandemic, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) was set up by ministers to tackle supposed domestic “threats”, and was used to target those critical of lockdown and questioning the mass vaccination of children.

Critics of lockdown had posts removed from social media. There is growing suspicion that social media firms used technology to stop the posts being promoted, circulated or widely shared after being flagged by the CDU or its counterpart in the Cabinet Office.
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Documents revealed under Freedom of Information (FoI) and data protection requests showed that the activities of prominent critics of the Government’s Covid policies were secretly monitored.
An artificial intelligence firm (AI) was used by the Government to scour social media sites. The company flagged discussions opposing vaccine passports.
Many of the issues being raised were valid at the time and have since been proven to be well-founded.
The BBC also took part in secretive meetings of a government policy forum to address the so-called disinformation.
On Friday, MPs and freedom of speech campaigners condemned the disclosures as “truly chilling” and “a tool for censoring British citizens” akin to those of the Chinese Communist Party. — Telegraph

One of Boris Johnson’s own advisors — an Oxford professor — was among the targets being monitored for COVID disinformation.

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Sources Cited
—DailyMail
Telegraph